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' CASE FOR PENGILS.

Patented Feb. 5, 1884 NlTED STATES Arena Gr mes.

CASE FOR PENCILS.

sPrcrFIoaTIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,909, dated February 5, 1884,

Application filedDecember 5, 1883. (X0 model.).

To (LZZ whom it 77mg concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. ITIARING, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cases for Pencils and other Implements, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. a

This invention relates more particularly to pencil-cases; but is also applicable to cases for tooth-picks, knives, and such other implements as may be fitted to cases, withinwhich they may move back and forth in such manner as to be capable of protrusion therefrom for use, and of being sheathed therein when not in use.

The invention consists in certain means, whereby the movement within the case proper, 0r,as itis commonly ter1ned,the receiver 1 of what is variously termed the follower on the carrier is controlled, and the follower or carrier is firmly locked or secured eitherin position to keep the pencil or implement sheathed, or to keep it protruded for use.

Figure 1 in the drawings exhibits a longitudinal section of a pencil-case constructed ac cording to my invention, but showsthe exterior of the pencil-holder and its carrier. Fig. 2 exhibits a longitudinal section of the receiver, but shows the exterior of the parts contained therein, and represents the pencil as protruded for use. Fi 3 is a view corresponding with Fig. 2, except that the pencil, being sheathed, is invisible. Fig. 4 represents external longitudinal views of the two principal parts of the device which look and con trol thecarrier. Fig. 5 represents the opposite sides of the parts shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a transverse'section of the case on alarger scale than the other figures. Fig. 7 is a View corresponding with Fig. 2 of a modification of my invention.

A is the case proper or receiver, consisting of a tube of brass or other metal, which may be incased with an external shell of gold, indiarubber, or other material. I

C8 is the carrier. or follower, to which the pencil holder 0 or other implement is attached, or by which it is carried, which will be hereinafter referred to as the carrier, and which, being preferably of cylindrical form,

receiver. there is room between it and the receiver for the locking and controlling device by which the movement of the carrier is controlled and prevented. This carrier has provided on its exterior a laterallyprojecting pin, a.

The locking andmovement-controlling de-. vice consists of a sliding tube, D, fitted with a cap or head, D, a fixed guide, E, and a spiral spring, F. The tube D has its lower portion completely cylindrical, and fitting loosely be tween the interior of the receiver and the exterior of the carrier, and it has an upward semi-tubular prolongation or guide, D", which will presently be more fully described, and which, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, is furnished with a neck, D, to which is firmly secured the head or cap D. firmly and immovably secured to the interior of the receiver, has at its upper end a collar, 1),

tube D, and the portion below this collar is semi-tubular, and the exact counterpart of the prolongation or guide D of the sliding tube D. The said guide E and the tube D might be con sidered as two parts of one tube were it not that the latter is capable of sliding lengthwise within the receiver and the former is immovable therein. The longitudinal matching edges of D and E are quite straight and parallel with the axis of the case on one side, as shown at g in Fig. 5; but on the other side they are formed as shown in Figs. 2, 3, 4*131131] is to say,with the longer central portions, 0 c, the end portions, (Z d, straight and parallel with the axis of the tubes, but with inclined portions e 6 between (Z d and c 0. At the top of the upper incline e of the guide E, there is a notch, f, and at the bottom of the lower incline c of the sliding tube D is a notch, j". The straight edges 9 g and c c are so close together that while the tube D is free to slide in the receiver it is prevented from turning there in; but the edges 0 c are so far apart that they always form a passage for the pin a on the carrier, though this pin can only pass in and out has its exterior so much smaller than the interior of the receiver that when it is in the The fixed guide E, which is which corresponds in circumference with the of the said passage 0 when the edges are separated at e e, as shown in Fig. 3, and this separation is effected by the movement of the tube D, by pressure of the thumb or finger on the head D, the said edges 0 0, both at top and bottom of the passage being, when there is no pressure thus applied on the head, brought together, as shown in Fig. 2, and so made to close the passage 0 at top and bottom by the action of the spring F, which, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, is coiled around the neck D of the sliding tube between the upper edge of the fixed collar 12 and the lower edge of the cap or head D of the sliding tube.

hen the pencil or instrument is sheathed, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the pin a on the carrier is on the notch f, and when the pencil or implement is protruded for use, as shown in Fig. 3, the pin a is in the notch f. Fig. 2

shows the sliding tube D as held back by the spring, so that passage between 6 e is closed, and the pin is locked in the said notch and the carrier held back in the receiver, but Fig. 3 shows the head D still depressed, as it was, to let the pin a pass into the lower notch, -f. On the removal of the pressure from above D the spring draws up the tube D and closes the passage 6, and so locks the pin a in the notch f.

To produce the protrusion of the pencil from the ease for use, the case is held with the head upward, and pressure is applied to the head to open the passages at c c for the pin a, .and the carrier drops by gravitation till the said pin stops in the notch f. To produce the withdrawal or sheathing of the pencil into the case, the latter is held head downward, and

the head is pressed upward .to open the pas-- sage at c a, when the carrier descends by gravitation until the pin reaches the notch f. It will be seen that the notches f f limit the movement of the carrier.

In writing, the pressure on the receiver is prevented from producing the inward movement of the pencil by the pin a bearing'against the fixed inclined edge 0 above it. Any tendency to run up this incline forces the pin over against the upright side of the notch f, and as the sliding tube cannot turn the pin is arrested; hence the locking of the carrier ispositive.

The example of my invention shown in Fig. 7 only differs essentially from that shown in the other figures in that the spring F is applied between the upper end of the tip-piece G and the lower end of the tube D, instead of being like the spring F in the other figures.

applied to the upper parts of the tube D and receiver.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with the receiver and a carrier furnished with a pin or lateral projection, of a fixed guide within the receiverand a movable guide between the receiver and carrier, the two said guides having between them a passage for the said pin or projection on the carrier, and a spring and pressure-cap for operating said movable guide for opening and closing said passage, substantially as herein described. I

2. The combination, with the receiver and a carrier furnished with a pin or lateral projection, of a fixed guide within the receiver, a movable guide between the receiver and carrier, and a spring and pressure-cap applied to the said movable guide, the said guides com: prising straight and inclined portions, and be ing notched for the passage and stoppage of the said pin or projection, substantially as herein described.

3. The combination of the receiver A, the carrier B, having a projection, a, the stationary and movable notched guides E D", having a passage, 0 e 0, between them for the said pro jection, the pressure-cap, and the spiral sprin g, substantially as herein described.

JOHN C. HARING.

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FREDK. HAYNns, llIAT. POLLOCK. 

